If you've watched a lot of the Boston Celtics this season, you've seen Jared Sullinger launch more than a few 3-pointers. Despite missing two games the hefty power forward has attempted 44 triples (2.6 per game), more than anybody on the team except Jeff Green and Jordan Crawford.

Many folks -- including much of the CSNNE broadcast team -- seem to get upset when Sullinger shoots from outside. The thinking is that he's better off spending all of his time closer to the basket, and that's probably the case for now.

But the team's vision has never been about right now. Sullinger is already showing the potential to connect from deep (he's 7-for-13 from that distance over the past three games), and if he can keep developing his craft ... well, I'll allow Grantland's Zach Lowe to explain.

Sullinger has had a strong sophomore season, moving dudes out of the way in the low block, tossing some nice passes, and shifting around in smart ways on defense. He might be Boston's best all-around player right now, at least until Rajon Rondo returns.

He's up to 32 percent (14-of-44) from 3-point range, showing progress on a Brad Stevens experiment that had a lot of Boston fans — and their wonderful play-by-play guy, Mike Gorman — disgruntled early.

Sullinger jacking 3s is an example of great top-to-bottom organizational cohesion. Boston is going to be bad this season; why not spend some of it seeing if they can turn Sullinger into a kind of Kevin Love Lite? He'll be a nice NBA player for a long time even if the 3-point thing doesn't work out. But if it does, he's something more.

The other day, before Sullinger hit a slew of 3s against Cleveland, Stevens admitted letting the power forward shoot isn't about now. The coach explained how Sullinger reminded him of Matt Howard, a former Butler player who hardly ever migrated beyond the arc for his first three seasons, but hit 53-of-133 (39.8 percent) as a senior.

"You can always expand your game," Stevens said. "Because you haven’t done something in the past doesn’t mean you can’t get better at something. He has a natural touch, he has a great arc on his shot. (Sullinger is) a guy that looks like an obvious candidate to extend his range."

Complain if you wish that Sullinger's 3-pointers take him away from the offensive glass. That's a valid point. But it also spaces the floor, and the extra point from that range means his 32 percent from there is the equivalent of almost 50 percent on midrange jumpers. He's starting to look like a competent outside shooter, and if he ever becomes more than that the Celtics will really benefit.